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Rocky Road Rice Krispie Treats

Our parents didn’t make Rice Krispie treats for us when we were kids. We learned how to make them ourselves. These were one of the easiest sweet snacks to prepare in one serving portions. You didn’t actually need to heat them on the stove, bystepping what could potentially be a treacherous situation for a young one. Just get a plastic bowl, plop in a tiny bit of butter, tumble in the marshmallows and microwave until a billow of fluffy sugar expanded like a mini nuclear bomb. Pull the bowl out of the microwave, pour in the cereal (a little or a lot based on your sugar rush desire), stir it up really good and eat it. Nope, you didn’t even need to let it cool or eat it as a perfectly cut bar. It was so good just like that. Now that was the little kid way of eating these ageless treats, but now we’re grown. Here’s what grown folks do.

This is clearly not the only way to jazz up your crispy cereal bars. We’ve seen them with all kinds of candy, dried fruits and nuts added to the mix. When we saw the chocolate vanilla swirl marshmallows, this is just what came to mind. We thought the almond extract would’ve been too much in addition to the almond pieces, but it was literally just the right amount to maintain a smooth and constant nutty essence throughout each bite. If we had flakey sea salt, we would’ve used that, but the kosher crystals worked just fine.

Oh, and maybe you noticed that these babies actually made their debut on this site yesterday when we added one of our new banners. So photogenic, aren’t they?

I never got many RK treats as a kid either. Mom was always afraid I ate too much sugar. I think when I was in college and the campus bakery made them and served them in the cafeteria, I went nuts! I couldn’t get enough.

Man I have not had one of those in…can you say ‘forever’? I may have to try another cereal, just to play and make up this fantasy ‘kids’ cereal bar…the kid in me says who can freakin’ wait for them to cool…yank the whole baby out and eat the evidence…sorry I get carried away

Chocolate vanilla swirl marshmallows???? What am I missing not living in the US anymore? Wow! And how often did we eat these treats growing up? Not often! No one made them in our house either. Maybe that is why I crave things like this so much now that I am all grown up and living in Europe!